Bring down prices, women’s rally urges govt

August 28, 1972

BANGABANDHU MAY RETURN BY MID-SEPT

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is expected to return home by the second week of September, 1972, informs Gono Bhaban sources today. Bangabandhu, who is convalescing in Geneva after his gallbladder operation, is making a fast recovery. The sources further say that the prime minister is keeping himself abreast of the situation in Bangladesh on a daily basis and giving necessary guidance for the welfare of the people.

CITY WOMEN'S RALLY URGES GOVT TO REIN IN PRICE HIKE

A big rally of women held at the Central Shaheed Minar this afternoon urges the government to take immediate measures to bring down prices of all essential commodities, form an all-party food committee, punish hoarders, smugglers, black-marketeers, corrupt bureaucrats and introduce full rationing throughout the country and open fair price shops. The rally was jointly organised by the women branch of the Awami League, Bangladesh Mahila Samity and Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

CABINET DISCUSSES FOOD SITUATION

The Bangladesh Cabinet holds a meeting today at the secretariat with acting Prime Minister Syed Nazrul Islam in the chair. The Cabinet discusses the food situation of the country among other things during the five-hour meeting.

Nearly one crore and nine lakh maunds of rice and wheat will be distributed in the country through statutory and modified rationing and relief system in the month of September, says a government handout today.

PINDI-PEKING COLLUSION CASTS SHADOWS OVER DELHI TALKS

The Sino-Pak collusion in stopping Bangladesh from getting into the United Nations has cast its shadow over the Indo-Pak talks going on in Delhi to save the Simla Agreement, says informed sources. At the end of today's representative level talks, a Pakistani official says "not much has been achieved".  

AGREEMENT ON FISH EXPORT TO INDIA SIGNED

An agreement on fish export to India is signed today in Dhaka between Bangladesh Fish, Poultry and Other Perishable Commodities Exporters Association and Central Fisheries Corporation of India.

SOURCES: August 29, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.